Lelouch looks out to the crowd, her mouth open to say something, before pausing. It's clear she hadn't thought about what she was going to say, even in the time she spent just standing and watching the other two.
Letting out a sigh, she speaks up. "Gus Amon was...a man." She starts off, looking towards the closed casket. "Prior to his death, Gus and I fell out. He'd been working with my father, unsurprisingly in retrospect as they're all the same, to prevent me from achieving my dreams in what he deemed was 'for my own good'. I find it downright hilarious how he could even side with Shuichi, I mean the man himself thinks my wonder, amazing girlfriend, Jade Lamperouge is some confounded attempt at me trying to ignore the real world while he himself can't look past the damned accident that took away half my family, and he can't even get over himself to not go on some rampaged, assholish, self-absorbed monologue about his own superiority and false narratives of love that he thinks I believe." There's a bitter spit to her words.
"If my father were actually competent, I think he'd be a threat. But he wasn't, or at least I thought he wasn't, until Mr. Gus Amon revealed his true colours as my father's aide. Makes sense, the man was the one writing his paychecks to keep an eye on me, but...there was something about Gus that made him different. An understanding that I thought he had, that I truly, actually believed was real. But it wasn't. It never was." Her gaze never falters from the coffin.
"I'd say he was a good man, but I'd be lying. He played dirty to get his way, kept secrets from me and was working with the mafia whatever organisation you call yourself, and to me that's not a good man. Hell, the only thing 'good' about him was the fact he met me, and even then how much of our relationship was fake I don't even know. Sure, he'd protect me and, as Johnner said 'viewed me as a true daughter', but how much of that was real I don't know, and don't want to know." She sighs, looking away from the coffin and out to the crowd.
"What I said at the start summarised my thought on Gus Amon in a nice present with a pretty bow on it: Gus Amon," she pauses for dramatic effect, "was a man." (edited)
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, can't do the week after btw
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